Velocity invariance of receptive field structure in somatosensory cortical area 3b of the alert monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 401-419

  DiCarlo, James J ^a   Johnson, Kenneth O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area 3b; Cortex; Monkey; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; SI; Somatosensory; Tactile; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MONKEY; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032959748     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-01-00401.1999     Document Type: Article

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